Amenorrhea: How to get your period back!

There are two different types of amenorrhea: Primary and Secondary. Primary is when a female has not received her period as of the age of 16. Secondary is when a period has stopped for 3 months or more.

Levels of LH (Luteinising Hormone) and FSH (follicle stimulating hormone) and also other endocrine tests are taken. Once established what the cause is treatment can be re balancing the hormone deficiency or it maybe a case of looking at lifestyle choices as per the list above.

Now you know the Western Version, lets look at both acupuncture and fascial manipulation therapy and how they can help this condition.

Acupuncture:

When a patient presents this condition, they are diagnosed using Traditional Chinese Medicine to discover why and how this has happened. By learning about the patient’s childhood, adolescence and their general wellbeing you can understand that the reason for their amenorrhea is one of the below:

This list means that things are not moving within the body. The period is not coming because its stuck, whether due to not enough Qi moving in that area, damp obstruction of the channel etc. Acupuncture its all about trying to move it in the right direction by re balancing.

Fascial Manipulation:

If you are unsure what Fascial Manipulation is and would like to fully understand I have made a video which is on my website to help.

Here is a very brief explanation of why working with the fascia is so important in menstruation problems:

Amenorrhea can be linked to either the Superficial or visceral fascia and this will depend upon the nature of the problem. Endocrine problems can be caused due to lack of elasticity of the fascia which therefore interfere with the hormone balance within the body. The thyroid gland, which is situated at the front of your throat has fascia around it and if this is tight or even loose it will cause a problem thus creating a thyroid imbalance. So with this in mind if you now picture the uterus you have the same thing, the fascia can be restricted and therefore cause a dysfunction. This doesn’t happen overnight. Fascia is like a washing line, if you put all your clothes on one end of the line the other side becomes slack. If you damage fascia around the muscles, organs, tendons etc the washing line effect comes into play. Meaning that problems we are experiencing don’t always stem from where you think.

Fascial Manipulation is about finding the root of the problem, solving it for the body to function properly again.

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